Alpenrose Velodrome

This short, steep concrete track stood next to a dairy in the hills of Portland. It opened in 1967. Its bends were some of the steepest in the USA. It closed for good in 2021, and the land was sold to build houses. Here you can still race on it, on a summer night.

One lap: 268.43 m
Track: Concrete
Banking in the bends: 43°
Banking on the straights: 28°
Width: 7 m
Indoor or outdoor: Outdoor
Built: 1967
People who can watch: About 1,000

Did you know?

This velodrome was built in 1967, next to a dairy in the hills of Portland, Oregon!
The family who owned the dairy paid for this track. The dairy's own workers built it.
The national championships came here in its very first summer, in 1967.
The bends here are banked at forty-three degrees. That makes this one of the steepest tracks in America!
For more than fifty years, riders raced here on warm summer evenings.
The real Alpenrose Velodrome closed in 2021. The land was sold to build new homes.
The real track is gone now. But tonight, we get to race on it one more time!

The race announcer tells riders these facts at Alpenrose Velodrome.

Race at Alpenrose Velodrome

In Watt Fighters you race here on your own bike, on a smart trainer or with a power meter. Your watts move your rider round the track. On the steep bends you need speed, or you slide down the banking. You can race every event here: match sprint, elimination, points race, scratch race, unknown distance, time trial, keirin, flying 200 m, open track.

Race here in Watt Fighters

Alpenrose Velodrome

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